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Dungeons and Demons

By Salim Muwakkil

Among the questions raised by the spiraling scandal of U.S. abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison is this one: Why so many pictures? Seymour M. Hersh’s May 10 New Yorker article first revealed the horrendous treatment of Iraqi detainees. But the accompanying photographs are what lit the public bonfire beneath the issue of detainee abuse. Why would a bunch of… return to article

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